31/07/2016 Nitish backs new amended law on prohibition
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Patna,(BiharTimes): Even as the Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad had his reservation over stringent excise law, chief minister Nitish Kumar on Friday strongly defended the new Bihar Prohibition and Excise Bill (BPEB, 2016), which was tabled in the Assembly earlier in the day.
He said there is no scope for any police or excise department officials to falsely implicate anyone as the new law has doubled the punishment for anyone misusing it. He allayed the fears regarding the new Bill being draconian saying its provisions regarding punishment and penalty were the same as in the earlier prohibition Act.
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